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APUSH - Spiconardi
THE SEVEN YEARS’ WAR (A.K.A. THE FRENCH
AND INDIAN WAR): THE WAR THAT MADE AMERICA
Under mercantilism, the mother country extracts raw materials from her colony, manufactures the materials into goods, and then sells the manufactured good to the colony
How do you allow for economic growth under this mercantilism? Acquire more land for colonists to live and provide more raw
materials, so the new colonists can buy manufactured goods
MERCANTILISM
Where do the British go for new
land?
What problem(s)
is this going to present?
The Ohio Company
START OF THE WAR
Fearing British aggression, the French build forts on the border of Pennsylvania
A young George Washington is sent to inspect the construction of the French Fort Duquesne
Washington hastily constructs Fort Necessity and soon orders the fi rst shot of the war
The French would retaliate, ambush Fort Necessity and capture Washington
START OF THE WAR
A young George Washington
Benjamin Franklin devises a plan for a unified colonial government to provide defense during the war.
Both the colonies and British Crown rejected the idea
Franklin on the rejection: “The colonial assemblies and most of the people were narrowly provincial in outlook, mutually jealous, and suspicious of any central taxing authority."
ALBANY PLAN OF UNION (1754)
Colonists British
Methods of Fighting Guerilla warfare Marched in formation
Military Organization Colonial militia served under their own captains
British officers wanted to command the colonial militias
Military Discipline No military protocols observed
Drills and tough discipline
Finances Resistance to raising taxes
Colonists should pay for their own defenses and house British soldiers
Demeanor Casual, non-professional
Aristocratic; British officers had servants serve tea
BRITISH/COLONIAL TENSIONS
*First two years of the war went against the British. Advantage French and their Indian allies
William Pitt becomes the new Prime Minister of Great England in 1757 Raises money Increases number of British
troops and naval forcesPitt promises colonial
assemblies that they would be reimbursed for their war expenditures Colonists are happy and
tensions easesBritish eventually win the
war
WILLIAM PITT
The Treaty of Paris ends the war in 1763 France loses almost all
of its North American territory
Spain acquires French lands west of the Mississippi and New Orleans
British acquire French Canada and French lands east of the Mississippi
EFFECTS OF THE WAR
British
National debt jumps from £75 million to £133 million Who’s going to pay?
Britain gained additional land for mercantilist goals
Increased British disdain for colonists Britain tightens hold over
colonies
Colonists
Sense of unity against a common enemy Colonists had a
collective identity (bonds of war)
Proud to be BritishSense of liberty
Defeat of Catholic France was a blow for “Protestant freedom” over “popish slavery”
EFFECTS OF THE WAR
But this sense of nationalism would not last.
EFFECTS OF THE WAR